- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 17 min., 54 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Community activist, entrepreneur, and politician Lottie Heywood Watkins was born on June 4, 1919. She was the daughter of Susie Wilson and Eddie Heywood, a noted jazz pianist of the 1920s. Watkins entered the male dominated profession in the early 1960s and became the first African American female real estate broker in the Atlanta market. Watkins graduated from Reid's School of Business and became a secretary for Alexander Calloway Realty Company. She worked as a teller/clerk at the Mutual Federal Savings and Loan Association until she started Lottie Watkins Enterprises, Inc. in 1960. Watkins became active with the voter's rights campaign, the Civil Rights Movement and community-based organizations. In 1977, she was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. The honorary president and retired CEO of Lottie Watkins Enterprises, Inc., a full-service real estate company specializing in property management, Watkins resided in Atlanta with her daughters and their families. Watkins passed away on February 20, 2017.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Lottie Watkins
- The Honorable Lottie Watkins
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Corey Ball.
- OCLC
- 1003150406
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Lottie Watkins.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
021754
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Evelyn Pounds, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Corey Ball.
- Event
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2006 March 16.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Community Activist State Representative.
- Added Author
Watkins, Lottie, 1919-2017, interviewee.
Pounds, Evelyn, interviewer.
Ball, Corey, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.